Dohun Kim
Hi. I'm Dohun Kim. This is how I made my blog in 2 days. I had some experience using React, but I had little to no experience using Next JS, so it was a bit of a challenge. Also, this was my first fullstack application with a front-end website with a database in the backend.
I used Next JS 14 with an app router instead of the pages router. I have heard from other places that the app router is worse than the pages router, due to its slow loading speed, even though it is newer. I used tailwindcss to style the page, as I had a ton of experience using it. It is really easy to setup and use, and it reduces a lot of time designing and styling websites.
I wanted to make a blog that consisted of a view count, a like count, and a toggleable light/dark mode.
I followed two youtube tutorials (that are listed below) to make the basic structure with loading markdown files and converting them into JSX and a view count that deduplicates according to the user's ip address. Then, I added my own design with a header. Because I wanted a toggleable light/dark mode, I borrowed the button design from framer-motion's example page and added functionality.
When I was implementing likes in the project, I thought it would be similar to view count. However, I was overlooking one fact. Users are not able to unsee a post, but they are able to unlike it. So, I had to make it so that the likes are toggleable, and it is saved so that when they visit the blog in the future, it would display it accordingly.
Currently, there is a bug where the likes on 'post' view and the 'posts' view are not synced.
I am still working on the homepage, the about page, and I am planning to add a projects page where I list all my projects and accomplishments. For the blog page, I am planning to add comments, a search feature, and a tag feature where users are able to look up different posts by specific tags. Additionally, I will work on changing the markdown files to mdx files so that I will be able to use JSX tags on each post.